by Akan Ido

Former Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Gambo Jimeta has revealed that he was removed from his position for daring to suggest that political detainees like former president Olusegun Obasanjo, late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and others should be released from prison.

Jimeta who was speaking at the inaugural meeting of the National Security Committee which he chairs, said he advised late President Sani Abacha to release the prisoners unconditionally but he ended up getting a sack instead.

He said, “As the IGP then, I advised the former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, to release the high profile political detainees like Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen. Musa Yar’Adua and four others, but he refused to do so and instead removed me.”

He shocked members of the committee saying that he just learnt through the media that the job of the National Conference was to write a new Constitution for Nigeria.

Jimeta also clarified in an interview with newsmen that as a delegate he was just doing his duty as a citizen of Nigeria, adding that “wherever there is a positive endeavour to find solutions to what is worrying the nation, I will gladly go and do it not because I am invited or whatever.